Radioactive Train Stopped On Ukrainian Border

A train from Hungary bound for Belarus via Ukraina was stopped on the Ukrainian border. A safety check revealed that the train was radioactive.
According to the documents, the wagon contained zirconium ore, but the radiation levels exceeded the norm threefold. The train was returned to
Hungary.

A transiting freight train carrying zirconium ore from Hungary to Belarus was detained at the Ukrainian border following an environmental safety
check.

It was established that the radiation levels in one of the wagons exceeded the norm threefold. According to the documents, the wagon contained
zirconium ore transported from Hungary to Belarus via Ukraine.

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The incident is being investigated

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I wonder what was really in that wagon... Any ideas? Are there any more info to be found on this event?

Montenegro?! That was interesting. Lots of spooky stuff going on in Montenegro. But then the train would have had to transit Serbia as well. The
article mentions a "Ukrainian – Montenegrin border". However, there is no such border. Montenegro doesn't share border with Ukraine. If that
train really came from Montenegro, then the train must have been allowed to transit both Serbia and Hungary before being stopped.

I can only come up with two possible situations how this happened:
1) the ore was radiactive, as some ores naturally are and it happened to have a high enough concentration of radioactive isotopes to trigger the
sensors.

2)Somebody placed radioactive material, most likely from Serbia to that loas in order to smuggle it into Western Europe. Are there any facilities that
use Zirconium ore near population centers in UK or Germany? Because this would be a perfect way to get dirty bomb material near its target without
raising suspicions. (as ores usually have a low radioactive reading and thus small amounts of bomb material could simpply dissappear into that
background)

There are very few sources and they all disagree. Train returned to Montenegro. Train returned to Slovenia. Train still in Hungary. Train came from
Italy. Train came from Montenegro. Train came from Slovenia. Etc.

Another highly radioactive train has been stopped on the border, but this time it was a different border. It was stopped from entering Serbia and had
to return to Bulgaria. It was heading for Macedonia. The radiation inside of one of the wagons was over 3000 times higher than allowed. Outside the
train, the radiation was over 300 times higher than allowed. This old thread's train originated from Macedonia according to some reports. And
considering how easy it apparently is to steal nuclear materials in Serbia, according to
this thread, it's all a bit strange. What nuclear materials? From where to where, and
why?

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